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Why Did Kitty Genovese Die?

Fred Groh's review of Tibor Machan's Generosity: Virtue in a Civil Society (in the November 1998 issue of Navigator) began by describing...

Nov 10, 2011
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Christine Silk
9 Mins
Angry Customers Should Reevaluate Netflix's Changes

I hear customers are angry at Netflix over its recent changes. It’s worth taking a moment to ask: Why would anyone be angry...

Sep 22, 2011
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4 Mins
I Can and I Will

That pithy advice, usually attributed to Henry Ford, expresses one of the most frequent themes in the vast literature of self-improvement...

Sep 1, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins
Pride: Living as a Self-Made Soul

In this webinar, recorded on June 29, 2011, William R Thomas discusses pride as "the first and last of the virtues." Pride connects

Aug 29, 2011
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2 Mins
The Social Power of Integrity

There are people whom you have known or met who have a powerful quality to them; they know themselves, they seem comfortable in their own...

Jul 26, 2011
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Joel Wade
10 Mins
Earned Happiness in Tough Times

In times of economic trouble, many people find themselves having to cut into their pleasures. The financial pinch could mean switching from

Jul 26, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
6 Mins
What Really Matters: Putting Social Status in Context

How can we judge how we are doing in life? Most people look to society as a guage. For example, we might look to our pay and our prestige...

Jul 7, 2011
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8 Mins
Questions for Conservatives about Gay Marriage and Sock Drawers

Let’s start with your views concerning government. Most of you believe that government should not jail consenting adults for engaging, in...

Jul 2, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Start it Up!

Thirty years ago, Steve Mariotti decided to take a jog by the river. He was about a mile into his run, close to where his high-rise Wall....

Jun 27, 2011
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Sarah Perry
10 Mins
Al Gore's War on Children

I have long argued that the morally twisted beliefs of many environmentalists imply that humans are pollution and that the Earth would be...

Jun 22, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Whom Should We Thank?

November 22, 2004 -- If one looks upon Thanksgiving as a harvest festival, then it can also be seen as a celebration of producers. But the..

May 31, 2011
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2 Mins
Of Courage Undaunted

In the new year of 1803, America consisted of sixteen states. There were no prairie dogs or grizzly bears. No jackrabbits or bighorn sheep..

May 30, 2011
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Russell La Valle
6 Mins
This is Bob Barr

Editor’s Note: Bob Barr’s wide-ranging career has spanned law and politics, and multiple roles, including CIA analyst (1971-1978)..

May 30, 2011
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Lance Lamberton
10 Mins
The Importance of Blacklisting

August 30, 2002 -- Objectivism distinguishes between errors of ignorance and errors of morality, and libertarianism distinguishes between

May 30, 2011
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8 Mins
After the Apocalypse, Try Reason!

Children often behave in an irresponsible, irrational, emotionally charged manner with very bad results—valuables broken, someone hurt..

May 27, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
Betting Against the End of the World

Christianity is particularly prone to such nonsense. After all, the Book of Revelation is all about doomsday, though with details from a....

May 18, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Toward a Secular Moral Landscape

After thousands of years of formal philosophizing and probably a hundred thousand of contemplation around prehistoric camp fires, is there..

Apr 26, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
I Changed Careers After Reading Atlas Shrugged

I changed careers and philosophies after reading Atlas Shrugged. I read it when I was 28 years old. At that time I was asking questions such

Apr 26, 2011
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John Davis
3 Mins
Steve Walton is Flying High

Spring 2011 -- Steve Walton may well owe his big break to a Saudi prince. In 1996, Walton, a former naval officer, took a position on the

Apr 19, 2011
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Amanda Erickson
3 Mins
Charles Tomlinson's Wonderful Life

January/February 2005 -- Charles Tomlinson, a long-time supporter of The Atlas Society (publisher of The New Individualist), died Tuesday...

Mar 30, 2011
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William Perry
3 Mins

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